Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While delegates to the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka enjoyed the best of everything, police in Livingstone, 200 miles to the southwest, were dispersing rioting crowds with tear gas and baton charges after lines of people waiting to buy soap and cooking oil got out of hand. In Lusaka itself, laundry soap and detergents were in short supply; toilet paper and cheese were unavailable; and milk chocolate had become a rare luxury. A Lusaka car rental firm is in danger of closing because it cannot get spare parts. The nation's inflation rate is running at about...
...Olympic Village sprouts incongruously from a sparsely populated, 270-acre tract in southwest Moscow. Eighteen apartment slabs, each 16 stories high and sheathed in multicolored squares, will be clustered around three small parks. TIME'S Peter Ainslie toured the construction site last week and came away impressed: "Without a doubt, it's the most elaborate facility ever built to house, feed and entertain Olympic athletes...
...Wednesday, 'Chicken Little Day,' Skylab will probably be 38 degrees above the southeast horizon, drifting southwest to east," Bill Waller, the spokesman, said...
Real as it seemed, the taut control-room drama was only a training exercise. In fact, "emergencies" are daily happenings at General Electric's Boiling Water Reactor Training Center in Morris, Ill., 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Since it opened eleven years ago, it has been instructing more than 400 people a year in the fine art of running and maintaining G.E.-built reactors. Says Don Janacek, the school's "dean": "Our aim is to produce people who can operate their plants not just efficiently but safely...
...would like to stabilize that (the southwest) corner of the Square-parcel 1B will help do that, "Zeckhauser said. Brewer said last month, however, that the University had no plans to use the Mass Ave properties for academic purposes. "Everyone has his theories," Brewer said...